Posted on 10/29/2021 12:53:11 PM PDT by ducttape45
Today, at the conclusion of an emergency hearing, a federal District Court of Illinois issued a temporary restraining order against NorthShore University HealthSystem on behalf of 14 health care workers who have been unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate. The court said the plaintiffs are likely to prevail on Title VII and the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act.
The court set November 16 for a preliminary injunction hearing. In the meantime, Liberty Counsel will file a brief with the court for conditional class status to extend the relief for the entire class of health care workers.
As of last Friday, NorthShore had already started purging employees with sincere religious objections to its “Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy,” by removing many of those employees from the November work schedule, including those whose appeals were still pending.
NorthShore previously granted exemptions for some employees but then denied them in mid-September. Those denials were either without explanation or because the requests failed to meet some so-called “evidence-based criteria” that NorthShore never provided the employees in advance. NorthShore then only gave employees three business days to file an appeal without stating what was missing in the original application. In that appeal, NorthShore also apparently judged the validity of their religious beliefs by requiring them to include their entire vaccination history since the age of eighteen. However, NorthShore never requested employees to provide prior vaccine information in their initial exemption requests.
After denying these employees, NorthShore also changed its exemption form to include a warning that all religious objections based on “aborted fetal cell lines, stem cells, tissue or derivative materials will result in denials.” NorthShore is falsely deceptive in that form by stating that the COVID-19 injections have no link to aborted fetal cell lines and refuting the religious beliefs of health care workers who object to the undeniable connection of the injections to aborted fetal cell lines.
Illinois law dictates that employees at NorthShore University HealthSystem have the fundamental right to determine what medical care to accept and refuse. In fact, Illinois has a Health Care Right of Conscience Act that provides strong protection to all residents against discrimination based on health care choices. It states: “It shall be unlawful for any person, public or private institution, or public official to discriminate against any person in any manner, including but not limited to, licensing, hiring, promotion, or any other privileges, because of such person's conscientious refusal to receive, obtain, accept or participate in any way in any particular form of health care services contrary to his or her conscience.”
Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “Today’s ruling gave emergency relief to Liberty Counsel’s 14 plaintiffs who were threatened to be terminated by NorthShore University HealthSystem for their religious beliefs. This health care facility’s plans to purge employees who have sincere religious beliefs against the COVID shots has been foiled. These health care workers are heroes.”
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How can a restraining order be issued in one jurisdiction on nation wide premises and not to all others?
That is what I hope is the good news in this.
More-so, how can an order apply to future actions and not apply retroactively as in to those who have already been rejected?
Maybe this will move up quickly and we should continue to pray it will do so successfully. I dare to hope the SC thinks as many of us do that this administration is out of control and needs to be sent a stern message.
We have not even yet seen an action against the random application of the “sincerity” test and its inherent absence of objectivity or violation of the Constitution. “Congress shall make no law...” I guess someone can get creative enough and dishonest enough to find some wiggle room in that but I sure can’t.
This whole affair, in a just nation, would be slapped down with prejudice and quickly.
Ascension, pay attention
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Some good news, finally, ping!
Ideally you there should be no need of a religious exemption. But since there is, there should be only two factors:
I. Is there evidence to support you being a religious person?
Your own statement of faith should be good enough, but a statement by a witness should be pretty easy too.
II. Does your personally held religious belief conflict with you doing this thing?
Doesn't matter if it is based on facts, or whatever, it is your personal belief. That should be enough, so one would expect the vast majority of these should be accepted.
“In fact, Illinois has a Health Care Right of Conscience Act that provides strong protection to all residents against discrimination based on health care choices.”
Not for much longer.
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“ This whole affair, in a just nation, would be slapped down with prejudice and quickly.”
In a just nation, Texas would have had standing
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“ In that appeal, NorthShore also apparently judged the validity of their religious beliefs by requiring them to include their entire vaccination history since the age of eighteen. ”
We don’t have a HIPPA act any more?
No stooge for them!
11 0bama joodges versus 6 Trump judges on ND Illinois. A Clinton judge, 2 Dubya squishes and a Reagan judge.
You’ve got that right....PTL, for this decision by this Trump judge. 🙏🏻
Fascist corporations are making up BS over what is or is not a religious objection to the Chicomm jab. They are going so far as to define what is religion.
Constitutional lawyers will feast on the carcasses of these demonic boards of directors and CEOs.
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